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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...beaten and exhausted and was beleaguered by eight turnovers, three of which resulted in Yale goals. Tyler Casertano factored in all four Bulldog goals, scoring three and picking up an assist on the fourth. However, two different teams took the field in the fourth quarter with Yale content to slow down the game and play defensively and the Crimson playing with nothing to lose.“We left it all on the line in the fourth quarter and didn’t care if we made mistakes.” Flood said. “It?...

Author: By Barrett P. Kenny, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 4th-Quarter Comeback Falls Short | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

...helmet. There was no sightseeing this time. In those intervening ten months, Iraq had become a very different place, but not at all in the way that the U.S. government had intended. How did it get that way? Through a series of decisions that, in retrospect, look like a slow-motion car crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: Tenet Strikes Back | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

...Change is slow, however, because this situation perpetuates itself. Young researchers shooting for tenure must publish their best work in the most prestigious journals, and a journal’s prestige depends in turn on the research it publishes. The resulting chicken-and-egg problem for any new journal creates a powerful barrier to entry that enables publishers of established journals like Theoretical Computer Science or Gene to charge oligopoly prices out of all proportion to the work they actually perform...

Author: By Gregory N. Price and Elizabeth M. Stark | Title: Access For All | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...about three minutes into my walk, I am tempted to think of this condition as incurable. But truly learned Harvardians must never give up on those unluckier than us. The next time a Cambridge driver gestures monodigitally at you or runs over your toe, smile and wave. They might slow down to gawk at you just enough to get under the speed limit. What a difference you can make...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: Please, Please Don’t Run Me Over | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...understanding that attractive women become even more so when the thoughts behind their confident actions stay veiled. Quite simply, mystery intrigues, and the director exploits this fact for all it’s worth. Feist’s repeated lyric—“Take it slow / Take it easy on me / Shed some light / Shed some light on me please”—is used by the director to embody this idea of mystique, and the entire clip centers around inventive and playful contrasts between light and dark...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis and Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: POPSCREEN: Feist | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

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